I know I should be happy, but this makes me terribly sad. It will be the first Harry Potter story I won’t read aloud to Genius Kid. If I suggest it, the teenager who got his temps yesterday will say, “Really, Mom? I mean, really!?”

Wait, is this 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts, or 19 years after the epilogue, as the article implies? If it’s 19 years after the epilogue, then Albus (who seems to be the titular child) is in his late twenties, but the book blurb on Amazon says that Harry is the father of three school-age children, so it must be at the same time as or not long after the epilogue.

Not that I care–I’ve already preordered the Kindle edition. I’m just annoyed by the shoddy writing and editing of the BBC article.

I preordered because that way I don’t have to think about it again until it shows up on my Kindle. I prefer the Kindle version for many reasons, but the main ones are price and not having to find space for it.